Blog posts tagged "Liverpool"

July 20, 2011 3:52 pm 35 Comments

More than 40 years after he was sent down from Liverpool University for organising an anti-apartheid protest, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow returns to pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

September 20, 2010 4:36 pm 14 Comments

Jon's lost jacket is recovered

10:20 am 6 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on his journey to the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool - and his first impressions of the mood of delegates about the party's coalition deal with the Conservatives.

July 23, 2009 4:33 pm No Comments

When history comes to review the Brown government, it has every chance of proving an unhappy event. Gordon Brown’s takeover from Tony Blair settled uneasily into a sad and dispossessed period of ‘readjustment’ to the global financial catastrophe. But one of history’s other asides in reviewing the Brown government may yet come to rest on [...]

April 16, 2009 1:42 pm No Comments

I was fortunate to attend Liverpool University in the late 1960s. It wasn’t just the experience of living in a Northern industrial city, it was the insight into scouse culture that it provided. Hence the event remembering the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 20 years ago had a poignancy for me.